# Don’t mind me **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 15, 2021, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-mind-me/937905 "2021-03-15T01:14:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-mind-me/937905/1 "2021-03-15T01:14:51Z")
just try something I saw somewhere just try ing something I saw somewhere ah! that’s got it ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-mind-me/937905/2 "2021-03-15T02:13:16Z")
The Force is strong with this one. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-mind-me/937905/3 "2021-03-15T02:30:16Z")
My cat’s breath smells like cat food. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-mind-me/937905/4 "2021-03-15T12:34:57Z")
If you don’t mind, how did you do that? ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-mind-me/937905/5 "2021-03-15T14:28:47Z")
HTML-style (pointy bracket) tags for superscript and subscript. ``` superscripty text subscripty text ``` Like this or this ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-mind-me/937905/6 "2021-03-15T14:34:52Z")
And the lives of hundreds … maybe thousands were forever changed. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-mind-me/937905/7 "2021-03-15T20:06:31Z")
[![](https://i.postimg.cc/QCDJBsdH/earth-you.jpg) ](https://i.postimg.cc/QCDJBsdH/earth-you.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-mind-me/937905/8 "2021-03-15T20:07:56Z")
(Trying to embed image. Didn’t work. Forget how I did it before.) ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/codinghorror/32/4242_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-mind-me/937905/9 "2021-03-15T23:51:11Z")
There is a small whitelisted list of “safe” html tags such as `` and ``… as well as `` and `` and ``. Logic being, some people like to type native HTML rather than BBCode or [Markdown](https://commonmark.org/help). ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-mind-me/937905/10 "2021-03-18T00:23:58Z")
I was all excited to learn that Markdown has an explicit image tag, since it meant I could embed LaTeX with an [online generator](https://latex.codecogs.com/eqneditor/editor.php) directly instead of with [extra hackery](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gravity-and-time-dilation/920109/7), but it was not to be. Discourse tells me that: > Sorry, you can’t embed media items in a post. That seems silly, since we can in fact embed media items. It’s just that we can only use the auto-embedding method (which can go wrong) instead of explicitly. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2021, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-mind-me/937905/11 "2021-03-20T19:59:46Z")
🙂 ETA: just wanted to check that posting only an emoji would go through or if the five letter/word minimum would block it. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-mind-me/937905/12 "2021-03-21T17:48:32Z")
That particular emoji takes 23 characters. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-mind-me/937905/13 "2021-03-21T19:31:29Z")
Yes but it only _shows_ 1 character, that’s why I wanted to see if it worked. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-mind-me/937905/14 "2021-03-21T19:45:36Z")
😁🤣😁🧐😁 Yep, 1 character each. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-mind-me/937905/15 "2021-03-22T11:52:51Z")
> [@codinghorror](#): > > There is a small whitelisted list of “safe” html tags such as `` and ``… as well as `` and `` and ``. Back on our old platform, we had BBCode additions [sup] and [sub], and we had to disable HTML due to some abuse. I’m impressed with how much HTML you left in—it includes a lot of stuff that I’ve never seen actually used on a website, since just using CSS and DIVs and SPANs or making up your own tags is so easy. Did you do anything to stop diacritic abuse? ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/codinghorror/32/4242_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-mind-me/937905/16 "2021-03-22T20:07:49Z")
You can max out `` and `` levels via CSS rules, that’s all I can think of. If you have something in mind that you think might be a problem feel free to PM me! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-mind-me/937905/17 "2021-03-22T20:12:35Z")
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**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-mind-me/937905/18 "2021-03-22T20:14:12Z")
Hmm, looks like it’s at least limited to the \ of the individual post, instead of leaking out. That seems reasonable. ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/codinghorror/32/4242_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-mind-me/937905/19 "2021-03-22T20:14:31Z")
Sure, but I consider that valid Unicode for H. P. Lovecraft fans.